LocalGov2.0 posts

• Open Data Challenge - Ireland
  via data.fingal.ie Fingal County Council, Dublin City Council and a range of other partners recently hosted Ireland's first Open Data Challenge. An 18 hour event using local open data to create useful applications and services for people in Ireland. The winning projects included one that could help business find optimum locations and another for data fo […]
• Stirling poo - bag it and bin it
  via flickr.com Is there anything ickier than dog poo in your path? Stirling Council has a print/radio/social campaign to remind people to bag it and bin it. And there's a great council web page which brings all the elements together. Corrinne Douglas writes: "We wanted the message 'bag it bin it' to come from everyone, not just the Counci […]
• Digital marketplace: campaigns and creativity
  via portfoliocreative.org All councils do campaigns to raise awareness and prompt action on everything from adoption to direct debit on council tax to what's on and more. And although details and branding change from place to place, surely there's opportunity to share. Nottingham City Council have set up a nifty digital marketplace at http://portfo […]
• Digitalkoot | fun in the archives
  via digitalkoot.fi Lots of talk these days about 'gamification'. Turning mundane tasks into games, making them fun. Getting lots of people to do little bits and pieces of work, like tagging imagines in an archive. Or in the case of digitalkoot getting people to verify how good machine-read archive materials are. This is an initiative from Finland, […]